Location and Date

The workshop will be held on May 6, 2025 at Crescent Bay Rooms (A/B), UCI Student Center, University of California, Irvine.

All times listed in the program are in Pacific Time (PT).

Program

Organizers

General Chairs

• Fatima Anwar (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
• Luis Garcia (University of Utah)

Technical Program Chair

• Yasra Chandio (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Technical Program Committee

Topics of Interest

• Assessing and mitigating security risks in safety-critical IoT applications
• Secure communication protocols for sensor networks
• Secure real-time data stream processing in edge and cloud-integrated IoT systems
• Secure and private sensor-fusion pipelines
• Authentication and access control mechanisms in IoT sensing systems
• Intrusion detection and response techniques for sensor networks
• Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for secure IoT sensing
• Lightweight cryptographic algorithms for resource-constrained IoT devices
• Privacy-preserving machine learning and AI techniques for sensing systems
• Privacy-enhancing technologies for sensor data protection
• Security and privacy challenges in IoT system interoperability
• Security and privacy issues in deep learning models for distributed sensing systems
• End user security and privacy with human sensing interfaces
• Privacy and security in large language model (LLM) integration with IoT devices
• Cross-device knowledge sharing in IoT environments leveraging LLMs
• Quantum-resilient cryptography for future IoT security
• Sustainability-driven security designs for IoT and edge computing environments
• Safety and security in biosensor data handling and health monitoring devices
• Security and privacy measures for XR (Extended Reality) applications and interfaces
• Safety and trust mechanisms in autonomous vehicles and vehicle-to-everything (V2X) networks
• Dynamic risk assessment frameworks for evolving IoT ecosystems
• Legal, regulatory, and ethical considerations in IoT security and privacy
• Ethical and safety concerns in multi-sensor environments for smart cities and transportation

Submission Guidelines

Submissions may range from 1-4 pages in PDF format, excluding references, using the standard ACM conference template. Submissions are strongly encouraged to use only as much space as needed to clearly convey the significance of the work. Submissions should use only as much space as necessary to clearly convey their ideas and contributions.

We give options for the following two submission types:

1. Technical Research paper (up to 4 pages), where you can submit your preliminary results, analysis on an emerging topic, and retrospective extension of your existing work with new results.
2. Vision/Statement paper (up to 2 pages), where we solicit submissions without experiments, you can submit either a broader vision of your research in sensing systems safety or you can submit security/privacy implications of your already published sensing work.

Formatting

Submissions should be previously unpublished, and not currently under review by another conference or journal. Papers should be submitted for consideration via the workshop website, prior to the submission deadline, and must adhere to the provided formatting guidelines. All submissions must use the LaTeX styles found here. Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. Please note that ACM uses 9pt fonts in all conference proceedings, and the LaTeX style implicitly defines the font size to be 9pt.

Guidelines

Technical Research Papers up to 4 pages (including everything except references), reporting on novel research, to be presented at the workshop as an oral presentation. Vision papers up to 2 pages (including everything except references), where we solicit submissions without experiments, to be presented as lightning talks at the workshop. All submissions are double-blind.

Submission Site

HotCRP Link